…And the show went on since 1991. I’ve told the story a couple of times already. But even after 30 years, sometimes people keep asking me about it. I commemorated it 22 years and25 years after his death and when I explained the origin of my name, which went unnoticed. Today it’s 30 years already. Farrokh Bulsara (1946-1991) passed away OTD in 1991. He was born in Zanzíbar and when he was 18, his family moved to the UK. It was there where Farrokh turn into the one in only Freddie Mercury. After his death, Michael Thallium was born, maybe daydreaming that the show of life went on. Who knows, maybe someday someone else will carry on with this comedy or maybe a Canio will get on the stage with a knife in his hands and sentence: La commedia è finita! Anyway, whatever happens, I’ll leave it all to chance…
Yesterday, Saturday 11, 2021, the Spanish-American violinist Alexis Hatch Martínez Calisto was awarded the 1st Prize (3.000 €) of the 3rd International Violin Competition CullerArts. In this edition, the 2nd Prize was declared void. The 3rd Prize (1.500 €) was awarded to Clara Garriga Traugut.
The final took place at Auditorio Municipal de los Jardines del Mercado in Cullera (Valencia), Spain. Alexis Hatch performed the Violin Concerto in E minor op. 64 by Felix Mendelssohn. Clara Garriga Traugut played the Violin Concerto no. 2 in G minor op. 26 by Max Bruch. Both finalists were accompanied by the Orquesta de Valencia conducted by Carlos Garcés.
This competition is organized by the Cullera Townhall. The president of the tribunal is the Spanish conductor Cristóbal Soler.
